Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

from rhizome buds, internodes short and strongly flexuous, decumbent, ascending distally, 3–10(–14) cm underground, strigose.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

(2.5–)5–15 cm;

stipules bidentate, (2.5–)3.5–11 mm, papery, pallid;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(–21), blades broadly obovate or suborbiculate-obcordate, 4–20 mm, apex obtuse or widely and shallowly notched, surfaces strigose, sometimes less densely so adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(15–)20–35-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–7.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5.5 mm.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or divaricate, 1.5–5.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.6–2.2 mm.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

15.5–19 mm;

calyx deeply campanulate or subcylindric, 6.5–10 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 5.5–7.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 11.5–13.5 mm.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

erect or narrowly ascending, brown, ± straight or incurved through 0.25 spiral, oblong, slightly obcompressed, 1–1.5(–1.8) × (3–)4–6 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely strigulose;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

(17–)20–28.